All those companys i have mention have made massive dents in the awards industry. Doesnt matter who wins more awards, look at World of Warcraft, doesnt win any awards yet its claimed to be the greatest MMO ever to exist and still running. Halo is classed as 1 of the best FPS games to buy on the market. Mario and Zelda and heaps more franchises just own there genras, ND games are the same but i rate ND like i would with 343 and Retro. There not bigger then Valve, Nintendo and Blizzard and thats a fact. Google that one.

Well if the games that good shouldnt the masses be buying it? 5mill is an average sales count for a good game, its not legendary or great. Half Life 1 and 2 sold more then 12mill each, GTA and Cod sell over 10mill easy, Mario Kart and Halo sell over 8mill easy. Blizzard games sell more then 8mill. Games like RE 5 and 6 sell around the same as Uncharted or TLOU so does Tomb Raider.  NG games to me are no bigger then Resident Evil or Tomb Raider.

WOW won a tonne of awards...........................

Sales <> quality..keep changing the subject. Why do you keep bringing up sales now?

it is pretty opviosu you came her to try to put down a Sony game...Most of the best movies, art, are not big popularity wise.

What in the blue hell are you talking about? Those franchises were never ever built with MS. They are used by MS because MS cannot create classics on their own. Granted I am glad they are back, but Rare titles are a shadow of their former selves especially without the supervision they had and ownership of the original owners when they were a secondary to Nintendo. Rare isn't even making Killer Instinct. Microsoft is using the IP, they don't own the soul of Rare because its been gone long ago. It's like Naughty Dog not making Crash Brandicoot while under Sony, its just does not feel the same and causes the franchise to feel less than.

Thank you for your reply, this is more in line with what I was looking for. If you don't mind, I have a couple of follow up cpmments I would like to hear your take on.

First of all, Assassins Creed is an Action Adventure game, so is Uncharted. While I realize Uncharted also has platforming and first person shooter elements I don't think it's completele meaningless to compare the two games.

So, if you will. There are the specific things in Assassins Creed that I do not particularily enjoy:

- An open world to explore, that requires certain missions to be accomplished that ultimately forces the narrative in the desired direction. I particularily dislike the lengthy cutscenes that is fired up with every new mission you accept

- A word filled with 'side quests' that quikly become very tedious. In Assassins Creed IV thyat I am playing now this is stuff like "Free the pirates" and finding hidden chests or whatever. I grow tired of that stuff extremely quickly

- Climbing, hiding, stalking requires virtually no skill. It's all basically done for you. I am hoping that Uncharted at least has a more complex mechanic for climbing buildings etc. From my limited experience it does, but the platforming still seemed extremely easy when I pleayed it.

- A laughable combat system that offers almost no challenge what so ever.

Finally, worst of all:

When you perform certain things, like a sneak assassination or whatever, it is just a matter of hitting a button at the right time and the games plays an 'awesome' animation of whatever action. This is my number one fear. The QTE. I am wondering if Uncharted utilizes the same mechanic.

These are my main gripes with Assassins Creed. I would like to know how Uncharted compares in these areas.

Edit: I would actually like to know if these mechanics are typical of all Naughty Dog games or not, and if not, what type of game is this new game they are teasing likely to be.

You can just see the list on wikipedia, there will be plenty of games of your like and/or dislike... and seeing you intending to buy a Xbone for Zoo Tycon I sincerely don't think he have a even close taste for games... but still don't think you should be here asking to be convinced to buy a console... buy what you preffer and keep avoiding what you don't have interest... if 20 min of gameplays is enough for you to dislike a genre, maybe 2h of conference from Sony in February was enough for you to decide not having a PS4... so why keep complaining about a dev games that you don't have interest in playing??? It's funny that you use Xen to back up your opinion but don't use the 90%+ that disagree with him to see that you may be wrong

Another frustrating reply.

I don't intend to buy an Xbox One. I don't like the Kinect thing, and Zoo Tycoon is a game I would love to play, but it's not enough to buy a console for. I am in this thread for one reason only, try to find out if there is any point in considering buying a PlayStation 4. The answers here won't be the final decission, but what kind of games I can expect from one of the marquee developers on the system will factor in. Again, Xen is (was at least) the only one who address the mechanics of the game. I don't care about 100 people telling me "Uncharted is awesome", I will listen to the one person who can say "Uncharted is awesome becuase it does this, this and this". Then I can decide if those elements are interesting to me, so far I am not much clearer on what to think. I have a feeling that Uncharted plays similar to Assassins Creed, but ironically that is based on the feedback from people who claim the two games are nothing like eachother.

So again, no information form you, except for the little nugget that Zoo Tycoon is a game worthy of looking down upon if I read your tone correctly. If that is the case, I am guessing there are not many games like it in the PlayStation library? Anyway, that is even further off topic and I don't know if I even care to listen to what people might have to say about that. One last thing though, I have never complained about Naughty Dog outside of the initial statement that the only time I played Uncharted it was for a short time and I didn't like it. Everything else has been an attempt to understand the game and the philosophy of Naughty Dog better. The response has been ranging from mild irritation to butthurt as if I pissed on someones diety (ok, perhaps a slight exaggeration).

If you want to see the differences in UC to any other game a video review will be better than describing and action-adventure game for you... And if your preference is Indie/Low Profile Games Xbone and PS4 will have plenty (WiiU perhaps, I don't follow their news). Your questions seen a lot strange.

They're not the same kind of games. But Uncharted and Gradius V, for example, both use a linear level progression. And you state that you don't like linearity. What is wrong with a game being linear?

Must all games be open world to be fun and compelling? What about Mario games? You enter level, find path to reach the star, finish the level. Go to next level... What's wrong with linear gameplay? Why is it a negative? It's a game style. Just like open world is and other.

I played Shadow of the Colosuss and was filled with rage to the point where I swore of video games forever. I stuck by it for a couple of years too actually, but the 7th generation won me over again.

Anyways, I've played many games, but not many Action Adventure games. I am not really looking for a list of PlayStation games that would suit my needs as that is way outside what this thread should be about. I am basically looking for information on the mechanics of a typical Naughty Dog game. But for reference since you asked I really like games like Bit.TRIP runner, Punch Out, Tetris, Bullet Hell shooters etc. In other words pattern based gameplay. I don't really need a recommendation on those types of games though, I am asking because I am wondering if I should do my kids a solid and buy a second video game console that they will probably love (since they love everything that is new and shiny) without subjecting myself to buyers remorse rage that compromises my love for video gaming.

PS: I am not intereseted in comments on how reasonable or rational it is to swear off a platform based on one game. I know how many of you will react to that information but that doesn't concern me. I make my desicions for myself, not for a bunch of people on a discussion board.

Will buy for the kids, buy Nintendo... want pattern games, maybe fb games?